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Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE

Future Past Planning Yourself
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Alone Force Government Moments Temporary
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Help Nerve Ourselves Strength Struggle
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Applaud Fall Recover Run

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

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